There's a sort of wiki here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/
and some listening suggestions here:
https://i.imgur.com/6001VSi.jpg
Plus a long article by Adam Harper:
http://www.dummymag.com/features/adam-harper-vaporwave
It's really easy to make fun of this genre, but personally I think that
some of the music is really nice: Blank Banshee, Vektroid, Internet Club
etc. I also think that of some early IDM have a (proto)vaporwave-aesthetic.
Especially Boards of Canada comes into mind thinking of that.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 91 lines What is a Hipster?
> What is a Hipster?
> On Jan 5, 2016 8:30 PM, "c. jones" <coda27@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Vaporwave is hipster kids from the late 90's/ early 00's reminiscing over
>> a time they didn't exist in by ironically & lazily sampling 80's hits and
>> slowing them down so as to they're doing something new and original, when
>> in reality they're just contributing more and more detritus to basically
>> what's an inside joke.
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:11:59 -0800
>> Subject: Re: What is Vaporwave?
>> From: alecwild6@gmail.com
>> To: ben@diamondste.in
>> CC: kit.mauldin@yahoo.com; idm@hyperreal.org
>>
>> Yeah, Vaporwave is kind of weird in the sense that it was born out of an
>> aesthetic and then evolved so much beyond it while keeping the aesthetic
>> evolving. I've seen some really interesting discussion on what Vaporwave
>> becoming so ambient-focused in releases like 2814 means and where we draw
>> the lin on what is and isn't vaporwave.
>>
>> The Vaporwave documentary is great but was unfortunately released before
>> "I'll try living like this", which I and many others consider the best
>> vaporwave release of 2015. If you haven't listened to it, give the track
>> "Somebody Home" a listen. I truly believe that the overstimulation and
>> grooves of that song are going to become a theme of vaporwave at some point
>> soon.
>>
>> I think the vaporwave rabbit hole goes a lot deeper than a lot of people
>> think, but it's a very weird genre to break into.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Ben Diamondstein <ben@diamondste.in>
>> wrote:
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>> I don't mind academic. From what I can tell, Vaporwave seems to have a
>> lot of commentary attached to it, so I'm not surprised there's a lot of
>> academic-level discussion around it.
>>
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>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Christopher Mauldin <
>> kit.mauldin@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Adam Harper who writes occasionally for the Wire and Dummy Mag is kind of
>> the vaporwave ur-guru. Obsessive and academic. His blog, in case you have a
>> few millennia of free time to burn: http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Ben Diamondstein <ben@diamondste.in>
>> *To:* Idm List <idm@hyperreal.org>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 5, 2016 4:50 PM
>> *Subject:* What is Vaporwave?
>>
>> In respect to the "Best of 2015" thread, I figured it may be worth
>> bringing the Vaporwave topic to another email.
>>
>> I'm fairly new to this list, so I've been hesitant to ask about
>> Vaporwave, but it seems like something people have thoughts on.
>>
>> Here's a video I found in my own research that seems to do a pretty good
>> job describing the history of (which is actually very interesting).
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM
>>
>> But again, it's kind of academic. Anyone here into Vaporwave and can
>> explain a bit of why/what? It seems that people are generally very
>> opinionated on it in the more well-respected music circles. Plus, it seems
>> to have a very devout following, considering the obscurity of it. Seemingly
>> like IDM in its infancy.
>>
>> This is the song that people often reference most closely with the genre.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU8HrO7XuiE
>>
>> Thoughts? Opinions? Bueller?
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>> --
>> From the desk of Alec Wild
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